Committee:

Zvi Biener, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. Zvi has published numerous papers on Newton and Newtonianism, and is co-editor with Eric Schliesser of Newton and Empiricism (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Mary Domski, Professor of Philosophy, The University of New Mexico. Mary has authored multiple papers on Newton, and her book Newton’s Third Rule and the Experimental Argument for Universal Gravity was published in 2022 by Routledge.

Steffen Ducheyne, Professor of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Among his many publications are The Main Business of Natural Philosophy: Isaac Newton’s Natural-Philosophical Methodology (Springer, 2012) and Physics in Minerva’s Academy: Early to Mid-Eighteenth-Century Appropriations of Isaac Newton’s Natural Philosophy at the University of Leiden and in the Dutch Republic at Large, 1687–c.1750 (Brill, 2025).

Andrew Janiak, Professor of Philosophy, Duke University. Author of Newton as philosopher (Cambridge University Press, 2008), editor of Newton’s Philosophical Writings (Cambridge University Press 2004, 2014), and co-editor with Eric Schliesser of Intepreting Newton: Critical Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2012), Andrew’s most recent book is The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman: Émilie Du Châtelet and the Making of Modern Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2024).  

Kirsten Walsh, Senior Lecturer of Philosophy in the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Exeter. Kirsten has published multiple papers on Newton’s methods including his use of hypotheses and his experimental philosophy, most recently “Definitions, Axioms and Newton’s Proofs by Experiments,” in Peter R. Anstey and David Bronstein (eds.), Definition and Essence from Aristotle to Kant (Routledge, 2025).